Re Draft Decree“On Penalties for False Denunciations”[3]

Written:Written between November 14 and 24, 1921Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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Ipropose an addendum raising the penalty

[1]—perjury.—Ed.

[2]—oath.—Ed.

[3]Thisdocument was written in connection with the drafting of a decree
of the Council of People’s Commissars “On Penalties for False
Denunciations”. The decree was signed by Lenin on November 24, and
published inIzvesttaon December 1, 1921. Lenin’s addenda were
included in the text of this decree (see Collection of Statutes and Decrees
of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government”, 1921, No, 77, p. 787).